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Folk Train History:

  • 24 April 2001 visit to the Old Nag’s Head 
  • August 2001 Spain
  • 22 January 2002  Ireland
  • September 2005 North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire
  • October 2006 Sheffield Folk Festival
  • June 2007 The Day after the big flood. The Folk Train was cancelled.
  • October 2007 New Mills Town Hall
  • October 2008 The Sheffield Folk Festival   
  • Wessex Folk Festival
  •  ...more

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Manchester - Hathersage Folk Train

Train departs Manchester Piccadilly at 1145 calling at all stations from Reddish North to Hathersage. The band plays at the Little John Hotel, Hathersage. Return on the 1432 train from Hathersage, calling at all the same stations, except Strines, arriving at Manchester Piccadilly at 1532.

Saturday 11 April 2009 with the Rainy City Bluegrass Band
Traditional bluegrass at its best.

Saturday 2 May 2009 with The Duffers
Lively traditional music plus the Crown Rapper Sword dancers.

Saturday 23 May 2009 community rail month event with Dom Colins
Excellent comedy solo performer

Saturday 6 June 2009 with Blue Heart
Country, blues and bluegrass

Saturday 20 June 2009 with Nelson Peach
Traditional and American folk music.

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Top stories for News

• David Harper, 27, who has a history of domestic violence towards women, beat and strangled mother-of-three Stacey Quigley, aged 24, at her home in Glenhurst Road, Burnage.

Life sentence for bully who battered girlfriend and drowned her in the bath 2 Sep 2010 at 2:09pm

A pervert who superimposed photos of the head of Harry Potter film star Emma Watson on to indecent images of children has been banned from contacting the actress or surfing the web for porn.

John Cavanagh, 39, was found to have collected more than 1,200 indecent images of children when police seized computer equipment and DVDs from his home on Creswell Grove, Didsbury.



Web ban for Harry Potter pervert 2 Sep 2010 at 11:00am

A rugby club could be saved from flood damage after the Environment Agency was given permission to raise its clubhouse floor.

Didsbury Toc H asked the agency to pay for alterations when it applied to change the way water runs in and out of Didsbury Flood Basin.



Club flooding risk is abated 2 Sep 2010 at 11:01am

A popular anti-social behaviour scheme designed to drive out yobs has been axed.

Due to government funding cuts, Manchester City Council says it can no longer afford to pay for the alleygating scheme and it has now been frozen pending a review.



Budget cuts hit alleygate scheme 2 Sep 2010 at 11:01am

Neighbours have been left looking at the inside of a house after the whole side of it fell away during building work.

People on Talbot Road, Burnage, have told how their own houses shook when one of the walls of the property collapsed two weeks ago in a cloud of dust.



Residents in call for action over ?eyesore? 2 Sep 2010 at 11:01am


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